Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-04-13
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Gladstone will speak Friday.

Gladstone will speak Friday.
The SuSiuehanna river is AT food height
The Texas drouth has been relieved with
rain.
The government shows less intention Ia
apply cloture.
A large window glass factory has located
Al Fost0ria, q.
Tuesday the coercion bill debate was re
Sumed in the commons.
Illinois wheat prospects are for three
fourths the average crop.
Bad winter wheat reports are received by
Ohio state board of agriculture.
England has assented to Russian de
mands in AfghaniStan for certain territory.
Senator j. K. Iawley will attend the
dinner OF the Loyal Legion i'll Cincinnati.
\ postal card harrow Swindle has been
worked upon farmers in Preble county. q.
Real estate spectators are focking to
Bowling Green. o.. including Governor
Foraker'S agent.
Archbishop Elder writes to deny that he
wrote a letter Ia sustain the position taken
by Dr. MctilNnR.
leipSic, o., is getting ready 10 Join the
oil and gas hoom. Several gaS wells are To
be sunk at Ripley.
Mr.. Blaine'S condition i reported inn
proved. and it is thought he will be up and
around in few days.
At indianapolis, Lieutenant Governor
Robertson has begun suit against Green
Smith to recover 5000.
Ii is feared by some of the friends of Mr..
John T. Raymond that he may have died
fIom ali overdose Of morphine.
Another laundering gaS well has been
struck at st. Mary's. Ohio. The gas is es-
Gaping from a siX-inch pipe with great
force.
Father McGlyn eXpounded Henry
Georges land theory TO a large and enthu>i-
astic audience in Springer Music hall. Gin
cinnati.
The Interstate commerce law is said to
be giving not only the river trade a lift but
10 be making business lively on the Ohio
canals.
Near Selma, Ohio, Joseph Busch.
farmer. killed his sick wife with a hammer
and hanged himself with bark moose in
the woods.
The thirty-fifth annual reunion of the
Scottish Rites bodies. under the jurisdiction
vi t'ncI>l'Ih VI ''lllt. iid> btkull
i'll Cincinnati.
Panhandle railroad officials are engaged
IN further investigation of freight train rob
berries by employees, though no additional
arrests have been made.
Chicago COW doctors, engaged in stamp
ing cut pleuro-pneum0nia, are said to have
needlessly killed large numbers of valuable
animals that were perfectly healthy.
Last Saturdays prairie nre in Norton
and Graham counties, Kansas caused the
death of about sixteen human beings. and
DESTROYED great deal of live stock and
farm produce. Hundreds OF farmers are
destitute.
\ skeleton. in broadcloth clothing and
grand army slouch hat, was found by
hunter in a quagmire near Chicago. where /
the unfortunate had evidently been Smoth- |
cred TO death or stuck in the mud and I
starved TO death.
The Interstate commerce commission /.
has made the concession la the Mobile n
Ohio railroad that if made to the Louisville +.
X Nashville in respect 10 the long and short
haul in connection with waterway competi- /
ton. and the road is now using its old |
tariff.
ont of iifty-siX presidential appoint
nents i'll the nine territories, including |
Alaska and Wyoming. and including tie
District OF Columbia, forty-four hayes'
,een changed 50 far by President Cleve-
and. and republicans superseded by dem
,crats.
Detective Jack Hinkle, of the Cincinnati
,olice force. was convicted of stealing a
watch in Custody Of the department. and
vas sentenced 10 the work house He WAS
dismissed in disgrace from the
Orce- Officer Reuben Watkins. convicted
Il assault and battery, was also dismissed.